Artificial Intelligence Engineer Jobs in England

AI Engineer
UK > England

The median AI Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 810 923
Rank change year-on-year +213 +113 +196
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 58 33 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.039% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.041% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 32 20 4
10th Percentile £52,325 £41,125 £41,938
25th Percentile £67,500 £46,250 £52,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £73,125
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +23.08% -8.59%
75th Percentile £97,188 £114,375 £89,063
90th Percentile £117,000 £127,500 £89,625
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £73,125
% change year-on-year -5.56% +23.08% +17.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,862 80,543 84,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.48% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,654 60,279 53,593
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,942 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +126 30 £85,000 -26.09% 115
South East +112 14 £100,000 - 32
North of England +79 11 £92,500 +94.74% 10
Yorkshire +78 6 £92,500 +131.25%
North West +29 5 £70,000 +27.27% 5
Midlands +66 1 £90,000 +38.46% 1
West Midlands +51 1 £90,000 +20.00% 1
East of England +46 1 £64,000 -28.89% 6
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Artificial Intelligence Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 43 (74.14%) Python
3 32 (55.17%) Generative AI
4 24 (41.38%) LLM
4 24 (41.38%) Finance
4 24 (41.38%) Degree
4 24 (41.38%) Machine Learning
5 23 (39.66%) Software Engineering
6 22 (37.93%) Law
7 20 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (32.76%) Algorithms
8 19 (32.76%) SDLC
9 17 (29.31%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 16 (27.59%) Games
11 15 (25.86%) Analytics
12 14 (24.14%) MLOps
12 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
13 13 (22.41%) Data Analytics
13 13 (22.41%) JavaScript
14 12 (20.69%) Kubernetes
15 11 (18.97%) Accessibility
15 11 (18.97%) Thought Leadership
15 11 (18.97%) Telehealth
15 11 (18.97%) Business Strategy
15 11 (18.97%) Distributed Systems
16 10 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
17 9 (15.52%) Greenfield Project
18 8 (13.79%) User Experience
18 8 (13.79%) Prompt Engineering
19 7 (12.07%) Site Reliability Engineering

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.17%) Apache
1 3 (5.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.07%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) Azure AI
3 3 (5.17%) AWS
3 3 (5.17%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 3 (5.17%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (5.17%) GCP
4 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.45%) Serverless
5 1 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.72%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.72%) Google Gemini
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.72%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
1 2 (3.45%) Metadata
1 2 (3.45%) Pinecone
1 2 (3.45%) Weaviate
2 1 (1.72%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Power BI
2 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) MLflow
General
1 24 (41.38%) Finance
2 22 (37.93%) Law
3 16 (27.59%) Games
4 5 (8.62%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.17%) Advertising
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Electronics
6 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.45%) Marketing
6 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.45%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) REST
2 5 (8.62%) PyTorch
2 5 (8.62%) TensorFlow
3 4 (6.90%) React
4 3 (5.17%) React Native
4 3 (5.17%) scikit-learn
5 2 (3.45%) CSS
5 2 (3.45%) Kafka
5 2 (3.45%) Next.js
5 2 (3.45%) NumPy
5 2 (3.45%) Pandas
6 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.72%) Flutter
6 1 (1.72%) Google JAX
6 1 (1.72%) JAX
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.76%) Algorithms
2 11 (18.97%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (15.52%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (10.34%) Public Cloud
4 6 (10.34%) Robotics
5 3 (5.17%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.45%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Android
1 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 32 (55.17%) Generative AI
3 24 (41.38%) LLM
3 24 (41.38%) Machine Learning
4 23 (39.66%) Software Engineering
5 20 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (32.76%) SDLC
7 17 (29.31%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 15 (25.86%) Analytics
9 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
9 14 (24.14%) MLOps
10 13 (22.41%) Data Analytics
11 11 (18.97%) Business Strategy
11 11 (18.97%) Telehealth
11 11 (18.97%) Thought Leadership
12 10 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 8 (13.79%) Prompt Engineering
13 8 (13.79%) User Experience
14 7 (12.07%) Natural Language Processing
14 7 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (74.14%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.34%) Clojure
3 6 (10.34%) Elixir
3 6 (10.34%) Rust
3 6 (10.34%) Scala
4 4 (6.90%) Go
4 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.17%) C++
5 3 (5.17%) Java
6 2 (3.45%) R
6 2 (3.45%) SQL
7 1 (1.72%) C#
Qualifications
1 24 (41.38%) Degree
2 6 (10.34%) Master's Degree
2 6 (10.34%) PhD
3 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.97%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
1 2 (3.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) OpenAI
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) Databricks
4 1 (1.72%) Google